"Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8. In the 4.10 cycle we mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways." A detailed overview of the changes compared to Xfce 4.8 and Xfce 4.10 preview releases can be found in the ChangeLogs. Xfce 4.10 will make its way to your distribution of choice, but of course, you can always download it and build it yourself.

At this pace, xfce will turn into the second or maybe first desktop environment for linux/unix environments.

When a new release of a desktop environment is released, I generally read odd or very bad reviews telling about the new different features, the unstability added or the poor performance; but for Xfce, everything I'm reading are cool and nice reviews.

So, congratulations Xfce team; you understand what people wants a workable and nice environment instead of an eye-candy one!